Machine for making printer&#39;s wood borders.



No. 791.438. i v PATLNTLD MAYao,19o5, L. B. CALDWELL .L G. A. ROOT. L

P. N. YODER. ADMINISTRATOR 0I' G. A. ROOT, DEOD.

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UNITED STATES Patented May 30, 1905.

PATENT OEEICE.

EDWARD B. CALDWELL, OF CLEVELAND, AND GEORGE A. ROOT, OF CHIP- PEWA LAKE, OHIO; ,P. N. YODER ADMINISTRATOR OF SAID ROOT, DECEASED; SAID ADMINISTRATOR ASSIGNOR TO SAID CALDWELL.

MACHINEA FORNIAKING PRINTERS WOOD BORDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 791,438, dated May 30, 1905.

Application filed October 21, 1904. Serial No. 229,451.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD B. CALD- WELL, residing I at Cleveland, Cuyahoga county, and GEORGE A. ROOT, residing at Chippewa Lake, in the county of Medina,

State of Ohio, citizens of the United States, have invented new and useful Improvements j accurately positioned and gaged, insuring perfect and uniform alinement, and consequently a perfect and symmetrical border. In addition to means for performing this function the machine includes a miter-boX and its adjuncts for correctly measuring and cutting the wood upon which the design is impressed.

The machine is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a perspective view thereof. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation. Fig. 3 is a detail in section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a partial top plan view. v

The machine includes a clamp for holding the piece or block of engravers wood and a screw-operated guide, which is movable along the strip of wood to locate and ga e the die.

In the drawings, 12 indicates t e bed of the machine, on which the strip or piece of engravers wood 9 is placed. This piece is type high and is held between metal strips 10 and 11, the whole lying rmly on the level bed, where it is held by front and rear setscrews 13 and 14, which bear against said metal stri s. The front screws 13 are tapped through ugs 13, projecting at the front edge of the bed-plate, and the rear screws14 Such borare tapped through the back plate 14 at the rear edge of the bed-plate. The screws per- 5 O mit adjustment of the block to the desired position and also permit the use of blocks of various widths or sizes.

A screw 3 is carried in lugs 3 at the ends of the bed-plate and has at one end thereof a wheel 1 and crank-handle 2, whereby it may be turned. On the screw 3 is the nut 4 of the traveling guide, and from this nut projects an arm 5, which is slotted, as at 6. The screw and guide are so supported and proportioned that the arm 5 projects over ythe type-high block 9. The arm 5 carries an adjustable plate 8, which is slidableon said arm and which may be fixed at adjustment by the thumb-screw 7, which extends through the slot 6 in the arm. The nut 4 carries a pointer 30 for a scale 16, marked on a ledge 16, projecting from the back piece 14, and this pointer is in line with the inner edge 5 of the arm 5. J The side edge 8 of the plate S is at ri ht angles to the said edge 5, and where t e arm joins the nut 4 the latter has a projecting edge 4, which is at right angles to the edge 5 and opposite to the edge 8, so that a rectangular recess is formed (indicated at 28) in which the die is fitted, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, when its design is to be impressed into the block. The parts are so arranged that the edges 4 and 8 slightly lap and rest upon the edges of the face of the block 9, as indicated in Fig. 4. This preserves the alinement and insures the accurate location of the die impression. The

"unctlon with the mark 29 on the lug 3 and indicate the extent or turn of the screw. Y All necessary accuracy may thus be obtained to pro erly position the impression of whatever in of d1e may be used, it being understood that dies of all sorts and kinds are or may be ingenuity of into which the rule 20 is sunkiiush with the floor of the box. This rule is movable horizontally and has a T-head 21 for the block to butt against. The sliding rule is held at any point desired by setscrew 19, ta ed into the 'loor of the box. Adjustment o Jhe rule permits a block of any desired length to be cut square or mitered.

The manner of use of the device is doubtless obvious from the above description. The die is located in the socket or space 28 and driven into the surface of the wood block 9 by hand and mallet, the block'beingiirst adjusted and located in proper position. The guideis then vmoved along the properdistance by turning the screw and the wood again impressed with the die, and so on to the end of the block, forming atype-high border, an example of which is indicated at 26 in Fig. 4.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, ish

1. In a machine of the kind stated, the combination with the bed and means to hold a block thereon, of a guide yfor a die, supported on the bed-plate and movable along the block. f

2. In a machine of the kind stated, the combination with a bed and means to hold a block thereon, of a screw-operated guide for a die, movable along the block.

3. In a machine of the kind stated, the combination witha bed and means to hold a block thereon, of a screw extending over the bed, and a nut on the screw having a guidearm projecting over the block and movable along the same.

4. In a machine of the kind stated, the combinaticnwith a bed and adjustable clamping devices arranged to hold a block thereon, of a screw extending over the bed, a traveling nut on the screw, having an arm projecting therefrom, and a plate adjustable laterally on the arm, said arm and plate being movable along the face of the block.

5. In a machine of the kind stated, the combination with a block-clamp, of a screw extending over the same, a traveling guide carried by the screw and arranged to move along over the face of the block, and a scale extending beside the screw, the guide having a pointer for the scale.

6. In a machine oi the kind stated, the combination with a bed upon which a block may be placed, of front and rear 'clampingscrews arranged oppositely on the bed and adapted to clamp the block therebetween, a traveling guide extending across the blocks, and a plate adjustable laterally on the arm, according to the width of the block.

7. In a machine for making wood borders, the combination with a bed-plate having a back plate standing at the rear edge thereof, of a miter-box supported on the back plate, and a block-clamp and traveling die-guide supported on the bed-plate.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD B. CALDWELL. GEORGE A. ROOT.

Witnesses:

JOHN K. RITTER, GEORGE L. N YE. 

